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Welcome to the 2017 Mod of the Year results! With top 100 voting having taken place over the last 20 days, the results have now been tallied and we are ready to announce the winners! Below you will find the Top 10 Mods of 2017.

While you’re at it, you can also check out the Top 10 Indie Games of 2017, or join the site in anticipation for next year’s awards to register a mod of your own or vote for those you think deserve recognition in 2018.

Honourable Mentions

With so many fantastic mods posting major updates and leveraging their passionate communities, we’d like to direct your praise and attention to these honourable mentions. A honorable mention is given for polling strongly in the awards, but being ineligible due to placing higher in a previous year, or if a significant update was not released in 2017:

Mod of the Year Top 10

10TH PLACE

SWAT: Elite Force is a massive overhaul of SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate, making it into a more realistic tactical police simulator. Featuring new and more realistic equipment, merged campaigns, extra missions, permadeath, better AI, and bug fixes.

9TH PLACE

Welcome to the 19th century: The American colonies have revolted, gained their independence and they are now nations, the Natives have resisted colonization and struggle to keep their identities, the ancient Asian civilizations are now an active part of the world scenario and have to play their cards right to protect themselves, and in the Balkans, people fight for their independence from once powerful empires. There was one spot on Earth, however, that was ignored for a long time... We're at the modern era and all empires have focused their attention on this long forgotten, but now desirable, region.

8TH PLACE

Dawn of the Tiberium Age (DTA) is a stand-alone mod that combines Tiberian Dawn (C&C 95) and Red Alert. While classic mode gets as close to the original game-play and balance as possible, Enhanced mode provides improved game balance and a lot of fun new stuff. DTA features many customization options for Skirmish and multiplayer (where you can play as GDI, Nod, Allies and Soviet on over 100 maps), challenging original singleplayer missions, as well as co-op missions. Since this is a stand-alone mod, you don't require anything but the mod itself to be able to play: the original game is not required.

7TH PLACE

Explore the island of Vvardenfell as you never have before, with a world built anew to be both alien and familiar to the Morrowind you knew before. New adventures await, with new exciting areas to see and explore, and new artifacts just waiting to be discovered. This is a complete overhaul for Morrowind, adding countless new details, weapons, armors and much more for you to see and do.

6TH PLACE

Age of the Ring is a mod for Rise of the Witch-king. It's set during the final years of the Third Age of Middle-earth, and features content from both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings film trilogies and J.R.R. Tolkien's novels. Our primary goal is to represent the cultures, warriors, and heroes of that era in a way that is accurate to the source material, engaging in terms of gameplay, and balanced around RotWK's 2.02 community patch.

5TH PLACE

The Empire at War Remake is a complete overhaul mod that aims to remake Empire at War. It aims to keep everything you loved about Empire at War: the hardpoint system, capital class warships, unique faction units and playstyles, while providing everything you expect from a 2017 game: Game balance, design vision and great graphics.

4TH PLACE

Third Age: Reforged is a submod for Third Age 3.2 that aims to overhaul the multiplayer aspect of the mod by thoroughly rebalancing the units and factions while also implementing new units, custom scenarios and other features.

3RD PLACE

Twisted Insurrection is a standalone game based on a heavily modified Tiberian Sun engine. The game features a completely new in-depth storyline which puts you in an alternate timeline where the Brotherhood of Nod were victorious during the first Tiberian War rather than GDI. Do you have what it takes to drag the shattered Global Defense Initiative out of ruin? Or will you crush all who oppose the will of Kane and his Inner Circle? The choice is yours commander.

2ND PLACE

From the makers of Thrawn's Revenge: Imperial Civil War, Ascendancy is a Star Wars mod set after the Battle of Endor in the Star Wars Galaxy. Fight for galactic ascendancy as multiple factions from this period in Star Wars history. In the wake of the Empire's collapse, the fledgling New Republic is working to build an entirely new order out of the wreckage. Meanwhile, on the edges of the galaxy, the Empire of the Hand, set up by Thrawn during his exile in the unknown regions with the covert support of the Chiss Ascendancy and Emperor Palpatine, strives to unite the galaxy in preparation to face outside threats...

1ST PLACE

Brutal Doom has polled strongly in previous awards, but has never won. Tirelessly releasing major updates year after year that takes Doom into a whole new level, we couldn't be happier to crown Brutal Doom the 2017 champion. It makes the game much more violent than before. There's much more blood, plus it adds unique gibs, death animations, dismemberments, headshots, executions, fire and explosion particles, flares, shadows over all objects, and much more. Everything in Brutal Doom is extremely intense. Everything sounds louder, looks bigger, moves faster, and hits harder.

Congratulations to all the modders and community members who participated in the 2017 Mod of the Year awards! We wish you all the best for your continued modding efforts into the new year and beyond.

brutal doom (and its addons!!<== very important) is constantly evolving while still having a solid and fun gameplay even for todays games.
maybe not first place but it totally deserve to be in the top.

just lol for the burie coment... you know brutal doom is not only more gore but also a new monster and weapon behavior and attacks. the new version will have an automatic graphical revamp for old doom maps, a new barrel explosion system and vehicles. brutal doom got also one of the best doom mods out there which is the project brutality. also ither addons made by different ppl contribute to the epicness.

i really can't stand those haters just because this mod is overpopular and a bit overrated. people like brutal doom and it was for many what maked them come back on doom. then of course brutal doom is quite old now and maybe is it inapropriate to have it being 1rst as there is several other good quality mods for doom out there that had been release or got an update for 2017 that changed many things.

you know , most people vote for their favourite mod, not for the most original mod of the year.
with saying all this, i hope there was no cheating in this contest.

NB: if your assets where effectivly 'stolen' then why not report it with some proof? ******** on a mod that use assets tons of other mods already use just because that mod is popular is ******* boring.

Congratulations to all mods! I thought Zombie Panic! Source would get closer to the top or Honourable Mentions, but it was a tough year and lots good Mods to win these places. Hell, Source engine is old anyway heh. May I ask which place we got?

If other mods are really that good, why are there less vote? This award is not for great mods. Its for mods with lots of fans voting. Presumeably, with lots of vote mean better mods. Stop whining and vote when you had the chance.

The fact that Brutal Doom is #1 proves that nobody who was involved in this list knows ****. Not only is the mod old as ****, it's a janky piece of crap that's not regarded highly even in the community for the game it belongs to.

I'm suggesting your statement that "nobody involved with this list knows ****" doesn't really make much sense for a popular vote. This sin't someone making their own top 10 list. I'm not saying anything about the quality of the mod, or what other parts of the Doom community (which I am neither part of nor pay attention to) think.

You know, I have probably put more hours on Brutal Doom and it's campaign than the entire Doom modding community have put on their own mods on the last year. If you and the 50 or so nerds at the zdoom forums don't like it, it's actually your problem. You have no grounds to say who should and who shouldn't win this award.

While I know this year was a pretty bad year for doom mods, this statement just flat out makes you look like an *******. It doesnt help your argument when you make yourself look as bad as the people accusing you of stealing assets or making alts.

@Cot.haxray, maybe you have problems to keep up with a discussion, but I didn't insult the other Doom mods out of the blue for no reason, I was answering to someone who called Brutal Doom a "janky piece of crap that's not regarded highly even in the communit". Don't try to distort the reality of the facts.

No, seriously, tell me more about the great mods of the Doom community that completely destroys Brutal Doom, like the fidget-spinner mod, the three or four ones that attempts to recreate Doom 2016 gameplay without any changes, or the anime-themed ones.

how about "Blade of Agony" or "Aliens: The Ultimate Doom"? those guys worked really hard to create a original and unique single player experience unlike your gore festival mod that is almost as pornographic as the anime-themed ones and has a ton of stolen/uncredited assets. i understand it's comfortable for you to think that people are mad at your winning because they are "jelly" or "butthurt". but in truth they are just pointing out the fact that you're an ******* with a lot to answer for and that likes to put up attitude

"Blade of Agony" and "Aliens: The Ultimate Doom" aren't hardcore enough for the true hardcore Doom fans who play Brutal Doom. Brutal Doom adds deep well thought out game mechanics to the game without breaking the original games level design. Fatalities are awesome and not boring at all, ADS makes the gunplay feel realistic and true to real life, meaty gun sounds make the game so much more believable and the GORE. The gore is ******* amazing, excessive blood everywhere. Also you need a fairly high spec PC to play this one without framedrops. Also **** everyone who doesn't like Brutal Doom and people who criticize it because Sergeant Mark IV puts so much love and care into this mod. I'm surprised this mod hasn't won the MOTY every year since first release.

Yeah im surprised you havent caught onto this. Also the first comment was meqnt to be taken in a bad way. What i was trying to say with that it was boring and shouldnt be on the list hence yawn next to thr name. Brutal Doom fans are dumb ***** anyway do im not surprised they upvoted my hate comment

Oh the irony. 90% of Blade of Agony's assets are stolen from Call of Duty and Medal of Honor games, and I am a contributor of Aliens: The Ultimate Doom, several stuff there is made by meand Kontra Commando even credits me on the title screen.

Your comment here is so very dismissive and ignorant, you are probably just acting dumb to fool your indoctrinated community that you and your mod has formed. You just want to pretend that those other sensational mods do not exist to make yourself look like a god of mods.